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Taxonomy
Berardius was named by Duvernoy (1851). It is extant. Its type is Berardius arnuxi. It is the type genus of Berardini. It was considered monophyletic by Lambert et al. (2009).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Gray (1863); to Rhynchoceti by Huxley (1864); to Physeteridae by Cope (1890) and Palmer (1904); to Hyperoodontes by Winge (1921); to Berardiina by Moore (1968); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Ziphiinae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), Muizon (1990), Rice (1998) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Ziphiina by Gray (1865) and Mead and Brownell (2005); to Berardiinae by Bianucci et al. (2007), Lambert et al. (2009), Bianucci et al. (2010), Lambert et al. (2013), Ramassamy (2016), Marx et al. (2016) and Lambert and Louwye (2016); and to Ziphiidae by Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Barnes (1977), Loughlin and Perez (1985), Vidal (1991), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Lambert (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011) and Yamada et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Delphinidae by Gray (1863); to Rhynchoceti by Huxley (1864); to Physeteridae by Cope (1890) and Palmer (1904); to Hyperoodontes by Winge (1921); to Berardiina by Moore (1968); to Hyperoodontidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Ziphiinae by Gill (1871), Gill (1872), Trouessart (1904), Turner (1912), Zittel (1925), Weber (1928), Fraser and Purves (1960), Kasuya (1973), Muizon (1990), Rice (1998) and Fordyce and de Muizon (2001); to Ziphiina by Gray (1865) and Mead and Brownell (2005); to Berardiinae by Bianucci et al. (2007), Lambert et al. (2009), Bianucci et al. (2010), Lambert et al. (2013), Ramassamy (2016), Marx et al. (2016) and Lambert and Louwye (2016); and to Ziphiidae by Gray (1866), Gray (1868), Kellogg (1928), Simpson (1945), Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott (1951), Scheffer and Rice (1963), Barnes (1977), Loughlin and Perez (1985), Vidal (1991), Geisler and Sanders (2003), Lambert (2005), Agnarsson and May-Collado (2008), Geisler et al. (2011) and Yamada et al. (2019).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1851 | Berardius Duvernoy |
| 1863 | Berardius Gray p. 200 |
| 1864 | Berardius Huxley p. 395 |
| 1865 | Berardius Gray p. 529 |
| 1866 | Berardius Gray p. 348 |
| 1868 | Berardius Gray p. 10 |
| 1871 | Berardius Gill p. 126 |
| 1872 | Berardius Gill p. 95 |
| 1890 | Berardius Cope p. 607 |
| 1904 | Berardius Palmer p. 136 |
| 1904 | Berardius Trouessart p. 778 |
| 1912 | Berardius Turner p. 93 |
| 1921 | Berardius Winge p. 44 |
| 1925 | Berardius Zittel p. 86 |
| 1928 | Berardius Kellogg p. 33 figs. Table 1 |
| 1928 | Berardius Weber p. 389 |
| 1945 | Berardius Simpson p. 102 |
| 1951 | Berardius Ellerman and Morrisson-Scott p. 723 |
| 1960 | Berardius Fraser and Purves p. 112 figs. Figure 26 |
| 1963 | Berardius Scheffer and Rice p. 8 |
| 1968 | Berardius Moore p. 276 |
| 1973 | Berardius Kasuya p. 61 |
| 1977 | Berardius Barnes p. 323 figs. Table 1 |
| 1985 | Berardius Loughlin and Perez p. 1 |
| 1990 | Berardius Muizon p. 295 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 1991 | Berardius Vidal p. 5 |
| 1997 | Berardius McKenna and Bell p. 383 |
| 1998 | Berardius Rice p. 86 |
| 2001 | Berardius Fordyce and de Muizon p. 179 |
| 2003 | Berardius Geisler and Sanders p. 29 |
| 2005 | Berardius Lambert p. 465 |
| 2005 | Berardius Mead and Brownell p. 739 |
| 2007 | Berardius Bianucci et al. p. 565 |
| 2008 | Berardius Agnarsson and May-Collado p. 981 figs. Fig. 5 |
| 2009 | Berardius Lambert et al. p. 919 figs. Fig. 10 |
| 2010 | Berardius Bianucci et al. p. 1093 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2011 | Berardius Geisler et al. p. 5 figs. Table 1 |
| 2013 | Berardius Lambert et al. p. 588 figs. FIgure 14 |
| 2016 | Berardius Lambert and Louwye figs. Figure 3 |
| 2016 | Berardius Marx et al. p. 130 |
| 2016 | Berardius Ramassamy p. 398 figs. Figure 17 |
| 2019 | Berardius Yamada et al. p. 2 |
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G. Berardius Duvernoy 1851
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Berardius arnuxii Duvernoy 1851 [Arnoux's beaked whale]
Berardius bairdii Stejneger 1883
†Berardius kobayashii Kawatani and Kohno 2021
Berardius minimus Yamada et al. 2019 [kurotsuchikujira]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available